Winnicott (1963b) terms this comprehensive mother the ‘environment’ mother because, for the infant, she is the total environment. To this I would add that the mother is less significant and identifiable as an object than as a process that is identified with cumulative internal and external transformations. I wish to identify the infant’s first subjective experience of the object as a transformational object, and this chapter will address will address the trace in adult life of this early relationship.
note how its the process not object itself & based in the subjective #driveTheory v #objectRelation
